kretati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *krętati. Cognate with Polish krzątać.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /krěːtati/
Hyphenation: kre‧ta‧ti

Verb

krétati impf (Cyrillic spelling кре́тати, perfective krénuti)

(reflexive) to move
(reflexive) to range
(intransitive) to begin, start (movement or activity)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *kretati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		kretati
present verbal adverb		kréćūći
past verbal adverb		krétāvši
verbal noun		krétānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		krȇćēm	krȇćēš	krȇćē	krȇćēmo	krȇćēte	krȇćū
future	future I	krétat ću¹ krétaću	krétat ćeš¹ krétaćeš	krétat će¹ krétaće	krétat ćemo¹ krétaćemo	krétat ćete¹ krétaćete	krétat ćē¹ krétaćē
future	future II	bȕdēm krétao²	bȕdēš krétao²	bȕdē krétao²	bȕdēmo krétali²	bȕdēte krétali²	bȕdū krétali²
past	perfect	krétao sam²	krétao si²	krétao je²	krétali smo²	krétali ste²	krétali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam krétao²	bȉo si krétao²	bȉo je krétao²	bíli smo krétali²	bíli ste krétali²	bíli su krétali²
	aorist	krétah	kréta	kréta	krétasmo	krétaste	krétahu
	imperfect	krȇtāh	krȇtāše	krȇtāše	krȇtāsmo	krȇtāste	krȇtāhu
conditional	conditional I	krétao bih²	krétao bi²	krétao bi²	krétali bismo²	krétali biste²	krétali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih krétao²	bȉo bi krétao²	bȉo bi krétao²	bíli bismo krétali²	bíli biste krétali²	bíli bi krétali²
imperative		—	kréći	—	kréćimo	kréćite	—
active past participle		krétao m / krétala f / krétalo n			krétali m / krétale f / krétala n

¹ Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
² For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
³ Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (“to be”) is routinely dropped.
⁴ Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (“to be”) is routinely dropped.
*Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

References

“kretati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026